Sleeping garment or bag.



F. S. CONVERSE.

SLEEPING GARMENT QR BAG. APPLICATION FILED 0CT.27. I917- 1,254,12, v Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

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'- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. CON- VERSE, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Westwood, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usefullmprovements in Sleeping Garments or Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates .to garments for sleeping, such as sleeping bags. Heretofore so far as I am aware such garments especially when made as bags closed at the bottom and when designed with reference to utilizing as much as possible of the blanket cloth, waterproof, leather or other material of which they are made, have been of forms either difiicult to enter or difiicult to close by the occupant after he has entered the bag, or both, or of such a form as not to give ti. 9 full warmth -and protective covering which can. be afforded by the bag. Principalobjects of the invention are to provide an improved article fully utilizing the material of which it is made forwarmth, and to provide a convenient garment easy to enter and easy. to close by the occupant after he is in ,the bag. Other objects are to provide a closure for the bag which shall give added thickness over the shoulders and chest of the occupant, which shall-not require compli- .cated fastening means, and to provide for construction from rectangular sections only of the material joined by straight seams so that the bag can be cut and sewed from a rectangular blanket or the like without waste of material at little cost beyond the expense of material. I K

portion so as to provide a neck and chest opening at 7. Theend of the seam 4 may 1f desired be protected by a gusset 8 of any In the accompanying drawings,-

gigure 1 is a plan view of the garment; an v Fig. 2 shows a detail of the head end'of the bag as closed upon the occupant.

In the embodiment of the invention constituting the preferred form selected toillustra e the invention, the garment-consists of a main tubular portion 1, formed by folding a rectangular section of the material at 2 and 3, the edges of the. blank 1 being'sealned together at 4 in a longitudinal seam endlng at 5, short of the head end 6 of the tubular usual. construction. The edges 7 may be selvages'of the cloth, as indicated, or pro tested by over'seammg, bmdmg or hem- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, tWlS.

Application filed October 27, 1917. serial No. 198,804.

ming. The head end 6 may be similarly treated to provide a non-raveling edge.

The corners of the tubular main part of the garment at the headend are provided .with fastening means adapted to hold a fold of the garment over the shoulders and across the chest of the wearer. As illustrated, tapes 10 may be sewed to the margin at the head end 6 near. these corners. While in some cases these tapes aloneare suflicient to hold the folded-over corners in place I'prefer also to provide eyelets 12 fastening together both layers of the edge folds 2 .or 3 at each of said corners, which can be connected by an ordinary horse-blanket safetypin such as illustrated at.13, thus to define the lateral folds 2, 3, and provide a strong clasp holding the garment in place. Any other desired form of clasp may be employed instead.

Preferably a head covering is attached to the main portion 1. As shown such head covering may consist of a rectangular blank 15 attached to the center of the back half of main portion 1 and suitably bound, hemmed or overstitched at the edges, the upper edge of the part 15 being folded upon itself at its middle 'and joined at the seam 16 to form an open hood adapted to be closed about the wearers head by folding the lateral margins 17 forward, as shown in Fig. 2. Preferably margin 17 of the hood portion is folded over and fastened down by a facing tape 18, to provide a flat durable edge.

(An adjustable closure at the throat of the wearer is provided, as by tapes l9 fastened to the opposite lateral edges 17 of the hood 15. The bottom 20 of the garment is usually closed to form a closed bag by any suitable form of sewed seam or other permanent or temporary closure.

It will be observed that the hood 15 for good proportions of the garment is about one-third of the width of the blank 1. The hood blanks being rectangular can be cut from the rectangular blanket or other material of which the blank 1 is formed without waste. 1

In use, the entire width of the tube 1 ex-v cept the narrow parts at the corners held together by; eyelets 12 being open at the head end and the tube being slit laterally; at the opening 7, the garment is easy to" enter while it lies on the ground. When the occupant is in the garment or bag the hood canbe closed aboutthe neck by the fastening 19, the opening 7 providing freedom for the occupant to fold over the upper corners, tie the tapes 10 and fasten clasp 13, the corners being folded over the chest as illustrated in Fig. 2. Wherf so folded three thicknesses of material cover the'shoulders and parts of the chest. The openin "7 can be closed and opened from within t e garment, as will be apparent.

I claim:

1. A sleeping garment having a flattened tubular main ortion, said tubular portion being open su stantially throughout the head end thereof for entrance of the wearer, one upper corner at the head end having thereon fastening means adapted to be fastened to the other upper corner thereof, whereby to form triple folds covering the shoulders and chest 0 the wearer.. 2.. A sleeping garment having a flattened tubularmain portion formed from a quadrangular piece of material having edges vjoined by a longitudinal seam ending short of the head end ofthe arment to leave a. neck opening, said tubu.ar portion having thereon fastening means adapted to hold .together in folded relation the corner of the tube at the head end of one fold and the corner of ,the tube at the head end of the other fold, whereby to cover the shoulders and chest of the wearer :with three thicknesses 'of'the garment material when in use.

3. A sleeping arment having a tubular main portion sald tubular portion being longitudinally folded, the garment having therein at the "head end a longitudinal opening and having fastening means adapted to connect one upper corner at the head end of one of the longitudinal folds to the other upper corner thereof, whereby to form triple folds covering the shoulders and chest of the wearer and to leave for' entrance an opening substantially .the full width of the tube.

in 4. A sleeping garment having a tubular main portion formed from a rectangular pieceof material, said tubular portion being longitudinally folded and closed at the foot and the garment having thereon fastening means adapted to connect one upper corner at the head end of one of the longitudinal folds to the other upper corner thereof,

whereby to form triple folds covering the shoulders and chest of the wearer and'to leave for entrance an opening substantially the full width of the tube.

5. A sleeping garment having a tubular main portion formed from a rectangular iece of material having edges joined by a ongitudinal seam, said tubular portion having lateral longitudinal folds and having thereon fastening means defining the position of said folds and adapted to hold them together over the wearers chest.

6. A sleeping garment having a tubular main portion the garment having thereon a hood having a closure at the throat of the wearer and,fastening-means adaptedto connect one upper corner at the head end of one of the longitudinal folds to the other upper corner thereof.-

7. A sleeping garment having a tubular 'main portion formed from a rectangular piece of material having edges joined by a longitudinal seam ending short of the head.

end of the garment to leave a neck opening, a hood formed from a rectangular piece of material attached to the body of the garment, fastening means adapted to hold the upper corners of the main portion and the hood folded about the chest and neck. of the wearer, and fastening means for the hood edges folded upon itself and fastened in a straight seam, said garment being adapted to be closed upon the wearer by fastening means attached to the lateral edges ofthe' hood portion and the'folded tubular por: tion respectively.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this twenty-third day of October, 1917.

FREDERICK s. CONVERSE. 

